Opinion: A Second Korean War?

AEI fellow Michael Auslin on the growing tensions in the Korean peninsula.

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... internal why Mary Kissel ... tensions are rising on the Korean Peninsula ... on Monday Pyongyang abrogated the nineteen fifty three armistice ... that ... supposedly suspended the Korean War ... so this war once again on the horizon ... enterprises to follow and the beest dot com columnist Michael Ostling ... joins me now from Washington ... Michael how seriously should we take Jinjiang and the new leader ... after getting the Korean War armistice is a very very serious step something his father's grandfather never did ... I is this situation ... really becoming something ... danger danger for ... well Marriott thing anyone has a million man army that's been showing of the territory of their neighbors sinking their boats and ... sets off a nuclear explosions and has rocket launches yet taken seriously and mean this this is not a country that makes ... idle threats in the sense of never doing anything they they make crazy threats like knitting United States or ... reducing Korea to a sea of fire but then they can they go ahead and actually do ... aggressive actions so anytime that ... did the regime that seems to be ramping up the rhetoric I think we have to take it seriously and wonder what what are we doing on that is actually may be encouraging them to think they can get away with it ... Michael is he makes an inexperienced leader nice taking actions ... that his father his grandfather never took a seat ... Ch fundamentally changing the calculations here ... of for the North but also for ... the nine states for South Korea and Japan to respond ... yet you know that is the key question our intelligence agencies better be figuring out really quickly you hear that young leader ... ah we didn't even know about the right and that for a few years until he actually took power ... I he said some phenomenal success is from from his point of view ... very early on in in his first year in office is successful nuclear test successful missile launch and so on so forth ... and the responses usual from the world community has been doing not yet on that one of the new UN sanctions they got less than ten seconds left ... they can and do anything or not ... of course not they never do and I don't think we should expect them to ... know K AEI fellow Wall Street Journal columnist Michael Ostling thank you for being with this